The Path (2016) s02e08 Episode Script

1 EDDIE: Previously on "The Path" SARAH: I won't let them seize the compound.
No.
We have to sell the the center.
I have to watch Johnny now.
I could watch him.
There was a man following us? He wanted you to go with him.
CAL: Next time we go to San Diego, we need to stop by Los Angeles.
There is a very important donor we need to talk to.
Noa her mother's some music mogul.
I'm never asking her for anything ever again, Hawk.
To help Noa live up to her potential, we need to help her mother.
DON: I had these tactics first money, then candy, alcohol, drugs EDDIE: You need a jump? Hey, what are you [grunts.]
JOHNNY: Eddie? Eddie? [suspenseful music.]
JOHNNY: Eddie? Eddie! [dramatic music.]
EDDIE: He's just a kid.
Okay? A little boy! God, you can't do this! It's already done.
Submit.
[Eddie grunting.]
Ugh! God! Come on, man! [Eddie panting.]
Is this who you are now? Huh? Is this what you do? You have something that belongs to us.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Okay? I don't have anything! What happened on the mountain? - You pushed Steve.
- Tell us! This is Cal, isn't it? Huh? He's doing this? He's punishing me? KODIAK: Cal doesn't know anything about this.
RICHARD: Steve didn't become one with The Light.
This is very disturbing for those of us who believe.
We need to know if you kept Steve from fulfilling his plan.
Look, let me just go get the kid, and then I will do whatever you want! First, take us back.
Take you back where? I don't know what the hell you're talking about! [eerie music.]
You dosed me.
[whispers.]
You dosed [retching.]
You fucking dosed me.
If you won't submit willingly [Eddie retching.]
[distantly.]
If you won't go willingly We'll guide you there.
We'll guide you there.
Up the mountain.
Up the mountain.
[driving techno music.]
WOMAN: I've got light in places You didn't know it could shine I've got light in places You didn't know it could shine I've got I've got [indistinct chatter.]
Jacqueline Richards? Yeah.
I go by Jackie.
Yeah.
I'm Cal Roberts.
This must be fate.
I'm in town for 36 hours, and I run into you.
You're a woman that I have been dying to thank in person.
You contributed on behalf of your daughter, Noa, to our cause.
Oh, you're one of those Mayer people.
Meyerists.
Yeah.
Look.
I have to say it's been I don't know it's been years since I've come across a student as promising as your daughter.
That's great.
That's really great.
WOMAN: I've got I'm sorry.
Did Have I upset you? No, no.
I am fucking thrilled for her.
Really.
Thank you.
Thank you for stopping by.
- Appreciate it.
- If I may, um, you don't seem thrilled for her.
Oh, no.
I am.
I am.
It's not that.
It's me.
It's I just have all this [sighs.]
Stuff going on.
I've lost someone kind of.
Luna.
She's my biggest client.
Tell me.
DON: I love my wife so much.
I come home sometimes and just watch her through the window before I open the door.
And I'm, like I can't believe she married me.
She's so beautiful and so kind.
The love she has for me so when I think about who I really am, what I do, what I keep doing if she knew who I really was [player clicks off.]
[cell phone buzzing.]
Hello? Is this Sarah Lane? It is.
NURSE: You're listed as an emergency contact for a patient of ours.
Brenda Roberts? - Cal's mother.
Yes? - Is there something wrong? Well, we've been unable to reach him.
SARAH: He's traveling.
I'm sorry to say, uh, Brenda is suffering from liver failure, and she's been placed in hospice care.
How long does she have? We don't like to make predictions, but it could be any time.
If you could help us contact him, that would be very help Yes, I'll do that right away.
- Where is he? - Mom! - Hi, baby.
- You're hurting me.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm just so happy you're okay.
Let me see you, huh? Are you all right? - Yeah, I'm okay.
- You okay, bud? Huh? I fell asleep, and when I got up, Eddie was gone.
Oh, God.
I'm so sorry this happened.
Well, relax.
We're gonna go home, okay? We're gonna just talk all about this later, okay? - Okay.
- You better believe we will.
How could you leave our son with that psycho? - Benson.
- That's what he is.
His whole family is.
Stop.
Please.
What the hell's wrong with you? Did someone do something to Eddie? They had to, right? [foreboding music.]
You know, honey, I don't know.
You and me, we're gonna find out, okay? - Okay? - Okay.
Okay.
[breathing heavily.]
- I love you.
- [Johnny murmuring.]
KODIAK: Where are you, Eddie? RICHARD: You're a denier.
MAN: You're the son.
KODIAK: What's behind the door? [Chloe moans.]
KODIAK: If you don't open it, you'll never escape it.
EDDIE: Johnny? Get out of here, Eddie.
MOTHER: Call the police, Eddie! Call the police! Before your father kills me! SUMMER: Come on, Dad.
Come home.
Come home.
[intense music.]
[gasps.]
[panting.]
Eddie? Eddie.
Eddie? He's not breathing.
BROWNE: Looking out at the road Rushing under my wheels [upbeat music.]
Looking back at the years going by Like so many summer fields She loved that song.
BROWNE: In '65, I was 17 Hey.
They have the best carnitas here.
I'm more interested to hear about this Luna.
Anything you can share about her is helpful.
I can't believe that you don't know who she is.
All I know about her is you said she's a musician.
- Luna is a pop star.
- I see.
And we're getting ready to do this world tour, and she decides that she needs a break and decides that she's gonna go to the beach.
We had these venues booked, these stadiums.
We're talking millions of dollars.
BROWNE: Trying not to confuse it Fear.
That's what I'm hearing.
The key is not to, you know, excise the fear, but you channel it.
Use it.
Okay.
So how? Well, we work with a lot of troubled young people.
We have some very effective techniques.
All right, but Luna is not like my daughter, you know.
No.
I mean, Noa's always wanted something to believe in, so she's easily brainwashed.
You know, we don't we don't brainwash.
We empower people.
Of course you do.
I just mean that I've never worked with somebody this young and this empty.
- Uh-huh.
- So how do you empower that? - You know? - Mm-hmm.
Why don't I pay for this and we'll get out of here? Is that what you were planning to use to get her back? Only if I have to.
You won't, because what I have to offer is a hell of a lot more powerful than anything that little handgun can fire.
BROWNE: I don't know about anyone but me Okay.
We haven't yet discussed, uh, my fee.
Oh, right.
Okay.
I'm willing to cut you in on my part of the take.
Like, say, $50,000? If you can close the deal.
BROWNE: Looking out at the road BOTH: All right then.
BROWNE: I don't know how to tell you all Just how crazy this life feels Look around for the friends That I used to turn to to pull me through [medical equipment beeping, faint snore.]
[door creaking.]
[woman snoring.]
[footsteps tapping lightly.]
Who who's there? Sorry to wake you.
It's all right.
I'm gonna be sleeping soon enough.
So are you here to poke me with something or pray for me? Is that what's been happening? [laughs.]
That's pretty much all that happens at the end.
I got rid of two priests and a rabbi.
That sounds like the beginning of a joke.
I'm a friend of your son's.
- They called me.
- I I need to see him.
I'm afraid he's out of town on business.
What? What business? What business could be more impor [panting.]
I need to see him.
There isn't much time left.
I'm This is it.
I've tried to reach out several times.
BRENDA: He doesn't want to talk to me? Oh, God damn it.
[panting.]
I need to see him before it's too late.
If you need to unburden, I can be your guide.
You're one of them.
I'm a colleague of your son's and a lifelong friend.
- What's your name? - Sarah Lane.
Oh.
I know you.
You're the one he's so in love with.
[pensive music.]
I'll try him again.
[Kodiak grunting.]
Come on! Wake up! He needs medical attention.
KODIAK: We can handle this.
There are people we can call for help.
Our people.
Wake up! [ominous music.]
They're trying to bring me back.
KODIAK: Come on, Eddie.
MAN: Come with me, Eddie.
[door creaking open.]
Eddie, wake up, man.
Come on, Eddie.
Come on.
Doc? [birds chirping.]
[eerie bell music.]
What's my mother doing here? You're home, Eddie.
I don't understand.
Am I dead? - [chuckles.]
- [sighs.]
It's so beautiful.
You built it, not I.
I was too steeped in sin.
It's your Garden, Eddie.
Doc? [scraping.]
[whispers.]
Johnny.
[driving techno music.]
Well, first, I have to pee.
That was a long drive.
[chuckles.]
[indistinct chatter.]
[laughter and indistinct chatter.]
[cell phone ringing and buzzing.]
Hi.
Finally.
You're hard to reach.
Where are you? Um I'm in someone's idea of oblivion.
- Everything all right? - SARAH: No.
I got a call.
It's Brenda.
She's not doing well.
What does that mean? She's never doing well.
Her liver, Cal.
It's It's the end.
This isn't a surprise.
This is the least surprising thing you could tell me.
She says she has something to say.
CAL: Are you with her? SARAH: Yes, and she seems so small and frightened.
And I have been with people on the threshold before, but this something's holding her back.
Yeah, well, that's it's not possible.
I'm out here on the other end of the earth, trying to fix my fuckup.
SARAH: Look.
Can I, uh can I just say that this this may have more of an impact on you than you think.
You know, losing the parent you've had a terrible relationship with can be harder than losing someone that you had a good one with, especially if you haven't made an effort toward closure.
Whatever parting words of poison my mother has to convey, she can do it through you.
It won't, uh It won't hurt you the way it will hurt me.
I'm sorry.
[indistinct chatter.]
- [chuckles.]
You first.
- LUNA: You first.
- No.
- LUNA: You first.
- [laughs.]
- LUNA: Right now.
- CAL: Hey.
- JACKIE: Hey.
- Hi.
- Can I ask what's so funny? Cal, this is Luna.
- This is Cal.
- Hi, Cal.
Aww.
Think we've made him a little sad.
[laughs.]
I think he was already sad.
Get some.
Yeah.
It's really good.
- No.
- Really.
Come on.
[tense music.]
Why not? Come on, come on, come on, come on.
- Oh! - LUNA: Ooh.
Oh nice shit, right? - [laughs.]
- Oh.
[echoing sniffing and laughter.]
We don't keep that kind of cash in the building.
Maybe we can write you, like, an invoice or Hawk oh, don't leave.
[indistinct chatter.]
What's going on? The guys are here with all the flooring, and they refuse to give it to us unless we pay them in cash up front.
That doesn't sound right.
They say the last check bounced.
Okay, I'm I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding.
- Yeah.
- I'll check it out.
Okay, 'cause they say they're gonna leave, so people are starting to say things.
- I'm sure it's just a mistake.
- Okay.
Yeah.
[pensive music.]
[sighs.]
[tense music.]
[murmuring indistinctly.]
I'm sorry.
I couldn't reach him.
[sobbing.]
Easy.
You're gonna pull out your IV.
You're lying.
I can see it in your face.
He won't talk to me.
You know, people grieve in such different ways.
Oh, fuck you.
Just fuck you.
Just - Brenda, I - Fuck.
Fucking wisdom, fucking Light, your fucking leader fuck all of you.
If you need to release, fine.
Just release it to me.
Oh-ho, you you have no idea what I have to release, what I have to say.
I don't, but BRENDA: I didn't protect him.
I should have protected him.
Didn't protect who? My son.
Calvin.
He hurt him.
He hurt him, and I didn't do anything.
I I was his mother, and I just walked away.
Cal told me that his dad could be violent his drinking but Cal has forgiven him, and so should you.
Wha my husband he's a weak old drunk.
Bruises heal, but what your leader did won't heal.
Never.
Your doctor, Steven Meyer.
Oh, he loved my son.
But it wasn't right how he loved him, and I didn't do anything.
I just let it happen.
No.
You're not gonna do this.
BRENDA: I didn't want to hear it either.
You are not going to poison I didn't want to hear it, but I saw it.
- No.
- BRENDA: I went - No.
- BRENDA: In the tent.
I am not gonna listen to these kinds of lies.
He was holding him, and it was wrong.
- These disgusting accusations.
- Wrong.
You know, you are gonna leave this world alone.
And it is exactly what you deserve.
Please.
Tell him I'm sorry.
Please.
I'm so I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
[whispers.]
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
[somber music.]
JOHNNY: This place this is where you've been? EDDIE: I don't know.
It's It's different.
It's It's more JOHNNY: It's fucking beautiful here.
It's like a paradise.
It's all so green.
Everybody's so happy.
It's not finished.
- It's not - What happened? I was, uh, struck by lightning.
Jesus.
You survived? Hey.
Johnny.
Why did you What? Oh, yeah.
You know, I don't even really remember.
Isn't that lame? All I remember is wanting to go so bad.
But you got struck by lightning and you lived.
There has to be a reason for that.
Something you've got to do.
You know, uh I was trying to save someone.
But I couldn't.
A storm came in, and, you know, I had ahold of him, but I let go.
You couldn't hold on? No, I tried so hard but JOHNNY: You couldn't save him.
There's nothing you can do.
There's nothing you could've done.
You hear me? Eddie, you got to understand that.
There's nothing.
Eddie, come on.
It is not your fault.
These things are not your fault.
You're just a person, okay? - [heartbeat pounding.]
- You have to understand that.
There is nothing you could've done.
- [gasping.]
- JOHNNY: Look at me, Eddie.
It is not your fault.
[echoing.]
There is nothing you could've done! Nothing! [gasping.]
[gasping.]
[Eddie gasping.]
[Eddie grunts.]
[Eddie gasping.]
[eerie music.]
[echoing gasp.]
[echoing cheers.]
[laughter and cheers.]
[Luna grunting.]
[cheers and laughter.]
[blows and laughs.]
Doesn't it feel good to just run? And not on that treadmill with that stupid trainer always yelling at me? - That's right.
- Well, you just run your little heart out for me today, 'cause tomorrow morning You know, when I was when I was little, my mom used to take me to the mall and let me do a full belt at the top of the escalator, just to hear my voice echo around us, and people would look up like, "Oh, is that little girl making all that sound?" Now it's just a stupid job.
Who cares? - Well, what if I told you - JACKIE: Wait, wait, wait.
People care.
Sweetheart.
Your fans care.
They love you.
Millions of them.
What if I told you that you could feel that freedom again, all right, that you used to feel? You know, playing, but not only onstage all the time.
That level of freedom, but every waking moment.
Fuck, yes.
Yeah, I want to feel joy all the time.
- Yes.
Joy.
- Tell her.
He knows.
Well, that's that's part of the problem, right? We always focus on the immediate the things, the surface, right? But what I'm offering you is a chance to feel unlimited fulfillment.
Not joy, all right? When you take The Light into your heart, you unlock something infinite.
JACKIE: Mm-hmm.
It's like an elevator in a tower with no limits that just keeps going as far as you can imagine.
Why do I feel like I'm at some time-share place? Who is he, Jackie? He runs a cult.
- No.
No.
- LUNA: Really? - No, we're not a cult.
- JACKIE: But, listen Noa, my daughter, has been there.
He has helped her so much, and I thought that he could help you too.
Well, you guys are depressing the shit out of me, and I need a bump.
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
[babbling.]
Guys, come on! Back to the house! [laughter and cheers.]
First rule of sales? Got to believe your own pitch.
It's not a pitch.
You people just don't want to hear it because it's not easy.
It's not the immediate gratification of shoving that stuff up your nose.
You're not convincing anybody, Cal.
You're not even convincing yourself.
[sighs.]
[surf crashing.]
[door creaks open.]
[door thuds closed.]
HAWK: Hello? - Mom? - SARAH: Hawk? What are you doing? Summer will be so happy to see you.
HAWK: How bad is it? - What's wrong? - The money we owe.
Oh - What? - Don't deny it.
Just respect me enough not to deny it.
I cannot believe your grandparents would involve you.
They they didn't.
And let me stop you from digging yourself a deeper hole.
No one else did either.
I saw the bills myself.
[sighs.]
And And that's that's why Cal wanted Noa's mom to write the check.
Is it over? - All of this? - No.
Of course not.
We're handling it.
Cal and I together, we're handling this.
Lately, at the center, when someone has a problem or someone needs help with anything, they come to me, and I help them if I can, and if I can't, I tell them straight-up.
Because they know I'll be honest with them, even when the truth hurts.
[bright orchestral music.]
The Movement is stronger than ever.
In you, clearly.
And if the rest of us just continue to follow the path of Truth and Light, then we will continue to be strong together.
Pray with me? [exhaling.]
RICHARD: It seems we won't have answers.
No proof.
We'll have to take what we have and make sense of it, as so many have done before.
He killed Steve.
[dramatic music.]
He killed Steve! He was already dead! The moment he had cancer, it told you.
It told all of us that he was a man.
Just a man! I didn't do that.
That's the truth.
[screams.]
[wood banging and clattering.]
- I was with him.
- RICHARD: Yes, we know.
On the mountain.
No.
In The Garden.
Just now.
He took me there.
I saw what it could be.
[somber music.]
I felt love.
I felt forgiveness.
[grunts.]
I felt peace.
[crickets chirping.]
Eddie.
Come in.
- Is Johnny here? - Please tell me.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- He's okay? He's fine.
He's fine, but where the fuck were you? Where did you go? What I'm gonna tell you what happened.
I just need you to listen.
- No.
No.
- Please.
No.
You know what? No.
Just, you there's just nothing you can say that's gonna make this better.
- Look, listen to me.
- They took me, okay? - They forced me.
- Eddie, If you are hearing voices - It's not voices, okay? - This happened.
The Meyerists, they took me.
They drugged me.
They tied me up.
I told them that Johnny was out there, but they did not care.
They wanted me back.
What did you say? I told them that it wasn't gonna happen.
Okay, you need to call the fucking cops.
You need to report them right now.
No, no, no, no.
CHLOE: Eddie, why not? They're fucking criminals! They need to be in jail, all of them! EDDIE: Look.
Look.
My kids are there.
Okay? They have my kids.
[somber music.]
Then I guess it's never over, then, is it? No matter what.
[Brenda breathing heavily.]
Look like you could use some company.
I don't want to go back.
No, I know.
I know.
You shouldn't have to.
I didn't have much of a childhood either.
Never went to school.
I wasn't a pop star, but I was told I was special.
Held apart.
And, you know, looking back, I I just want to be gone.
I know you do.
I don't want to hurt nobody.
I just want to disappear.
Well, then [sighs.]
Disappear.
[sobbing.]
Just take your keys and go.
Just keep driving.
Till you're far away.
Till you feel safe.
I can do that? Yeah.
[Luna sobbing.]
Yeah, you can.
I can do that.
You should.
I should.
I should.
[somber music.]
[exhales.]
[groans.]
[line trilling.]
[cell phone ringing and buzzing.]
Cal.
I'm so glad it's you.
I have to tell you, um, your mom, she passed.
They said that she went quietly and peacefully.
Cal? Yeah.
I wanted you to know the check that we were hoping for, I can't I can't get it after all.
Did you hear what I just said? CAL: I know that I'm failing you.
Wish there was another way, but Sarah, I don't I don't think that I could live with the person I've become if-if It's okay.
CAL: No.
No, it isn't.
Not right now, but it will be.
I will see to it.
What did she need to tell me so badly anyway? Did you find out? She wanted to apologize.
She knows that she wasn't much of a mother.
She loves you, and she's proud of the man that you became.
DON: Okay, so I should be back at about 6:00.
- WOMAN: Yeah.
- DON: Okay? WOMAN: Love you.
DON: Bye.
[indistinct chatter.]
DON ON RECORDING: I'm not a bad person.
I know right and wrong.
There's just something inside me it makes me do these terrible things.
[children yelling and chattering.]
[Jackie sighs.]
Cal.
Wake up.
Wake up.
Where's Luna? Do you know? I got to get her ready and go back to L.
A.
- I let her go.
- What? She's gone.
I told her to get as far away from you as she could.
Far away from me? Why the fuck? You'd tear that kid apart.
You're lucky that your own daughter had the courage to get away from you.
Fuck you.
You're supposed to be the adult.
Huh, you're supposed to be the one making the right decisions for your child.
Not always thinking about your own needs And your own desires.
Guilting everyone around you into fulfilling them.
Don't wait until it's too late to be a good mother.
[somber music.]
[dramatic music.]
I have something for you.
Was this Steve's? It was the first one made for him after The Ladder was revealed.
I took it off him when we found his body.
I kept it safe.
Wasn't even sure why.
Until now.
No, Richard.
I I can't accept this.
- The Light is in you.
- No.
You're marked with it.
Richard.
What, this? Look, that's the lightning.
What? Is it? You know.
- You know.
- No.
You will build The Garden.
Richard, I just And we will follow you there.
[pensive music.]